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Faraday rotation induced B-modes can provide a distinctive signature of primordial magnetic fields because of their characteristic frequency dependence and because they are only weakly damped on small scales, allowing them to dominate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-29 Levon Pogosian , Amit P. S. Yadav , Yi-Fung Ng , Tanmay Vachaspati

We revisit the method of using the photon-graviton conversion mechanism in the presence of the external magnetic field to probe small-scale primordial magnetic fields that may exist between the last scattering surface and present.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-01 Pisin Chen , Teruaki Suyama

The redshifted cosmic 21 cm line signal of neutral hydrogen provides the possibility to constrain the matter power spectrum. Cross correlating temperature maps at different frequencies (corresponding to different redshifts along the line of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Kerstin E. Kunze

We investigate the impact of a stochastic background of Primordial Magnetic Fields (PMF) generated before recombination on the ionization history of the Universe and on the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation (CMB). Pre-recombination PMFs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-28 D. Paoletti , J. Chluba , F. Finelli , J. A. Rubino-Martin

We study the magnetic fields generation from the cosmological first-order electroweak phase transition. We calculate the magnetic field induced by the variation of the Higgs phase for two bubbles and three bubbles collisions. Our study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Jing Yang , Ligong Bian

We discuss whether an unaccounted contribution to the Cosmic Microwave Background polarization $B$-mode by primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) can bias future constraints on inflationary gravitational waves. As a case-study, we consider a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Fabrizio Renzi , Giovanni Cabass , Eleonora Di Valentino , Alessandro Melchiorri , Luca Pagano

Blazar observations point toward the possible presence of magnetic fields over intergalactic scales of the order of up to $\sim1\,$Mpc, with strengths of at least $\sim10^{-16}\,$G. Understanding the origin of these large-scale magnetic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-17 Tina Kahniashvili , Axel Brandenburg , Arthur Kosowsky , Sayan Mandal , Alberto Roper Pol

The origin of large scale magnetic fields in the Universe is widely thought to be from early Universe processes, like inflation or phase transitions. These magnetic fields evolve via magnetohydrodynamic processes until the epoch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-04 Molly Abramson , Emma Clarke , Tina Kahniashvili , Sayan Mandal , Salome Mtchedlidze , Jennifer Schober

Magnetic fields play a vital role in numerous astrophysical processes such as star formation and the interstellar medium. In particular, their role in the formation and evolution of galaxies is not well understood. This paper presents…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-10 Huai-Hsuan Chiu , Ke-Jung Chen

A cosmological magnetic field affects the time evolution of the cosmic matter density field. The squared Alfven velocity of the cosmic fluid is proportional to an ensemble average energy density of a primordial magnetic field (PMF), and it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-10 Dai G. Yamazaki

The spontaneous generation of uniform magnetic condensate in $QED_3$ gives rise to ferromagnetic domain walls at the electroweak phase transition. These ferromagnetic domain walls are caracterized by vanishing effective surface energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Paolo Cea , Luigi Tedesco

The origin of large magnetic fields in the Universe remains currently unknown. We investigate here a mechanism before recombination based on known physics. The source of the vorticity is due to the changes in the photon distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 Ophélia Fabre , S. Shankaranarayanan

We discuss the generation of large-scale magnetic fields due to the breaking of the conformal invariance in the electromagnetic field through the $CPT$-even dimension-six Chern-Simons-like effective interaction with a fermion current in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 K. Bamba , C. Q. Geng , S. H. Ho

We present new generation mechanisms of magnetic fields in supernova remnant shocks propagating to partially ionized plasmas in the early universe. Upstream plasmas are dissipated at the collisionless shock, but hydrogen atoms are not…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-08 Shuhei Kashiwamura , Yutaka Ohira

Magnetic fields are generated in ionized objects rotating with respect to a radiation background. Based on conservation of canonical ion momentum, it has been previously suggested that even if the radiation intensity is unrestricted the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Chuzhoy

We explore the effects of low-scale cosmological first-order phase transitions on Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) and Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy and distortion. We examine two scenarios: the distribution of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-26 Rui Xu , Jiachen Lu , Shihao Deng , Ligong Bian

Motivated by the new heavy dark matter production mechanism from cosmic phase transition, we propose a novel mechanism for the generation of microscopic gravitational waves (GWs) during cosmological first-order phase transitions arising…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-12 Dayun Qiu , Siyu Jiang , Fa Peng Huang

The generation of large-scale magnetic fields is studied in inflationary cosmology. We consider the violation of the conformal invariance of the Maxwell field by dilatonic as well as non-minimal gravitational couplings. We derive a general…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kazuharu Bamba , Misao Sasaki

Possible existence of the primordial magnetic fields has affected the structure formation of the universe. In this paper it is shown that the initial conditions for density perturbations with magnetic fields derived in previous works are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-20 Kazuhiko Kojima , Kiyotomo Ichiki

Was the primordial universe magnetized? The answer to this question would help explain the origin of micro-Gauss strength magnetic fields observed in galaxies. It is also of fundamental importance in developing a complete theory of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-14 Levon Pogosian , Alex Zucca